Milton v



MILTON V. N OBLES, 0F ELMIRQIL NEW YORK.

Letters Patent No. 108,507, dated October 18, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN '.BOAT-DETAICHING APPARATUS;

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Batteur and making part of the same.

How- Tovvall whom 'it may concern Be it kngwn that I, MILTON V. NoBLEs, .of Elmira,

in the county of Ghemung and State of N ew York,

have invented a new and valuable Improvement iny Boat-detaching Apparatus and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation ofthe same, reference being had to the annexed drawing making a part of this specification, and to the letters and iigures of referencemarked thereon. Y

Figure l ofthe drawing is a representation of my invention as applied to the detaching apparatus of an ordinary boat.

My invent-ion relates to means for protecting the disconnecting or detaching apparatus of boats; and consists, mainly, in the construction and novel arrangement of devices designed to constitute a waterproof casing for the main connecting-rod, and the adjacent parts which lie at or near the bottom f of the boat. AThis is an. improvement upon my disconnecting apparatus for which Letters Patent of the United `States, No. 65,824, dated June 18, 1867, have been issued but it is intended to be applied to all similarly or suitably-const-ructed detaching apparatus.

The letter A of the drawingr designates'the horizontal connecting-rod, operated by the lever B, and arranged to connect the bell-cranks C C at the lower ends ofthe disconnecting-rods.

D represents a water-proof tube or casing of snitable material, designed to inclose the rod Afand at the same time to. permit free movement thereof' in a longitudinal direction.

Usually I prefer `to make this tube in two sections, connected in the middle bymeans of a nut or collar, e, in the manner shown. i

Attached to each end of the tubel) is a flexible covering, Z, of painted sail-cloth or other suitable water-proof material, arranged to cover the movable parts and connecting-joints, and extending asA far up as may be necessary, to guard the parts from any ordinary amount of water which might by accident get into the boat.

The advantages of such an impervious and protecting case are obvious. The parts arethereby kept always ready for work. Beingthus protected, the rod cannot be bent out of shape, nor its freedom of move-4 ment impeded by the weight of superincumbent articles; 'lhe joints at the ends thereof will not be liable to get out o f order in consequence of' rust,&c.

Thus, although the boat may be unused for weeks at a time, yet at theend of this time the parts will work with ease and certainty. Even in the coldest temperature the formation of ice in the bottom of the boat will have no effect in impeding the action of the parts.

My improvement is 4adapted for use in connection with all detaching apparatus, provided with a conmeeting-rod or rods extending lengthwise in the boat,

and arranged to disconnect both en ds of the boat at the' same instant, and is designed to perform an essential oice iu the protection of' parts, and destined to lie inactive for long spaces of time, and yet liable to be called upon to opera-te with celerity and certainty at any moment.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Leiters Patent, is-

In combination with a detaching apparatus for boats, the water-proof tube or casing D, having the exible covering attachments Z at each end, when arranged to operate asy and for the purposes shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above, I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence ot two witnesses.

M. V. NOBLES.

Witnesses:

E. W. ANDERSON, D. D. KANE. 

